A new report finds that while the number of Australian children committing suicide is relatively stable, the amount of self-harm is increasing, and most alarmingly, the children involved are getting younger.

Three seriously ill teenagers died despite the Queensland Government receiving repeated warnings about the dangers of closing a specialised mental health facility for young people in Brisbane, government documents reveal.

The Cobargo Showground hall on the New South Wales far south coast has been ringing with peals of laughter as the subject of men's physical and mental health is tackled by farmers and other residents of the area.